Sakharam Binder” is probably Tendulkar’s most intensely naturalistic play. “It created dramatic history by challenging the Censor Board because it was initially banned. Tendulkar’s depiction of a character who rejects the artificial values imposed by the society and the use of extremely vulgar and outspoken language incensed the Censor authorities
Most of the plays of Tendulkar are performed first and published later. But “Kamala” is such an example that within a short period it was performed in four theatres – Marathi, Hindi, English and Gujarati in Mumbai. In “kamala” Tendulkar deals with current issue and points out the drawbacks of “investigative Journalism”. The play is based on real incident of India. In modern India, even today in some interior, rural parts of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh women are sold and this was proved by Ashwin Sarin, an Indian Express ‘reporter’ who actually bought a girl from a flesh market to expose the brutal exploitation of women that exists in rural India.
The Vultures (Gidhade) was actually written 14 years before it was produced (1970) and published (1971). It shocked the conservative sections of Marathi people with its naturalistic displays of cupidity, sex and violence. After the first production of this play, Girish karnad wrote that the staging of Gidhade could be compared to the blasting of a bomb in an otherwise complacent market place. It was with the production and publication of Gidhade that Tendulkar’s name became associated with sensationalism, sex and violence. There ensued a long war with the censors who condemned the play as obscene and in bad taste. Conservative sections of Maharashtrian Society were stunned by the open display of illicit sexual relations and scenes of violence that constituted the plot.
Kanyadaan, is the most controversial play of Vijay Tendulkar. It deals with extremely sensitive social and political issue, namely, the conflict between the upper caste (Savarna) and Dalits, a phenomenon still rampantly prevalent in several parts of India
Short story is one of the most popular forms of literature in odern time. It has now asserted its place as a distinct art form. It is the oldest form of literature. People are telling and hearing them from generation to generation. Children and grown up, all alike are charmed by it. Stories have been told in every country from time immemorial and each country has accumulated a rich store of tales. In the hands of modern writer it has become a perfect work of art.
Ghashiram Kotwal is set in eighteenth century Pune at the time of the Peshwa rule. The play features the Peshwa's chancellor Nana Phadnavs and when it was first staged it came up against a lot of criticism of or showing the revered Nana's character in a derogatory light.This is not a historical play. It is a story, in prose, verse, music and dance set in a historical era. Ghashirams are creations of socio-political forces which know no barriers of time and place. Although based on a historical legend, I have no intention of commentary on the morals, or lack of them, of the Peshwa, Nana Phadnavis or Ghashiram. n e moral of this story, if there is any, may be looked for elsewhere.